Nashville tornado chaser helps Oklahoma victims

3:57 PM,
May 21, 2013

Storm chaser Jeremy Holmes.

Written by

Emily West
The Tennessean

Local storm chaser Jeremy Holmes stopped looking for tornadoes in Oklahoma yesterday and started helping people whose lives they devastated.

The Nashville car salesman takes weeks off each year to document tornadoes nationwide. Holmes and his team started south of Oklahoma yesterday and traveled to an area 60 miles south of Moore chasing a different storm cell. There they watched a smaller tornado form, but nothing compared to the EF-4 tornado that hit Moore.

"As soon as we knew the town was being ripped apart, we went," Holmes said. "I helped carry people in on makeshift stretchers and ...